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1 What IS Mindfulness Anyway? ANNE B. PARKER, MA, MHSA, MT-BC Fellow, Association for Music & Imagery Carol Bitcon Memorial Lecture American Music Therapy Association November 17, 2017

2 Benefits of mindfulness! regulate emotion! improve thinking patterns! reduce negative mindsets! reduce the negative experience of stress! improve relationships! enhance immune response! reduce anxiety & depression! enhance overall well-being

3 What Mindfulness is NOT: " Blank mind / no thought " Emotionless " Seeking bliss nor escaping pain " A religion or spiritual belief system " Relaxation or passivity

4 What is mindfulness?! A Philosophy! A Practice! A Treatment Approach! A Way of Being

5 History of mindfulness Philosophies, traditions and practices:! Hindu yogic! Taoist! Islamic! Judaic! Christian! Buddhist

6 Examples of Mindfulness Practice! Christian practices contemplative prayer lectio divina (divine reading) Centering Prayer

7 Examples of Mindfulness Practice Nepsis - vigilance of the mind and watchfulness at the gates of the heart» Abbot Gregorios, Eastern Orthodox Christian

8 Examples of Mindfulness Practice! Buddhist practices various meditation practices including: Vipassana - insight, contemplation Shamata - calm abiding Samadhi - concentration Vajrayana - visualization for training the mind

9 Examples of Mindfulness Practice! Mindfulness meditation Sati - awareness - attention - remembering to pay attention - acceptance - compassion

10 History of mindfulness! For the moment, what we attend to is reality» William James ( ) Father of American Psychology

11 History of mindfulness! The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will.! An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.» William James, Principles of Psychology (1890)

12 Therapeutic Approaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction - MBSR Jon Kabat-Zinn (1990) Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT Marsha Linehan (1993) Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - ACT Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson (1999) Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy - MBCT Segal, Williams, & Teasdale (2002)

13 Therapeutic Approaches! Forms of mental training to reduce cognitive vulnerability to reactive patterns that heighten distress or perpetuate pathology.! Approaches that focus on a new relationship to pain/emotions/ behaviors instead of stopping them.

14 What mindfulness does! Enables a reflective response rather than a reflexive one.! Changes habitual patterns physical, mental, emotional, behavioral, relational.! Reduces the distress instead of trying to eliminate stress.

15 What mindfulness does! Focus is on altering the impact of and response to thoughts, sensations, emotions, feelings.! Does not attempt to keep them from happening!

16 What mindfulness does! Focus is on altering the impact of and response to thoughts, sensations, emotions, feelings.! Does not attempt to keep them from happening!! Gives us the opportunity to make a different choice.

17 Definitions of mindfulness! The trait of staying aware; attentive, heedful.» The American Heritage Dictionary! Taking heed or care; being conscious» The Oxford Dictionary

18 Definitions of mindfulness! The capacity to maintain non-judgmental awareness in the present moment.! A technique in which a person becomes intentionally aware of his or her thoughts and actions in the present moment, non-judgmentally.» Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

19 Definitions of mindfulness! The awareness that emerges through - paying attention on purpose, - in the present moment, - and non-judgmentally - to the unfolding of experience moment by moment.» Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Stress Reduction Clinic

20 Definitions of mindfulness! The self-regulation of attention so that it is maintained on immediate experience, thereby allowing for increased recognition of mental events in the present moment.» Bishop et al., (2004) Mindfulness: A Proposed Operational Definition

21 Definitions of mindfulness! A particular orientation toward one s experiences in the present moment, an orientation that is characterized by curiosity, openness, and acceptance.» Bishop et al., (2004) Mindfulness: A Proposed Operational Definition

22 What is mind?! A process that regulates the flow of energy and information.! It is both embodied and relational.» Daniel J. Siegel, MD UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center

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24 Attention vs Mindfulness! Pure attention is stimulus driven levels of focus and alertness vary! Mindfulness includes receptivity meta-awareness ethics

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26 With mindful presence and awareness we are enabled to make more conscious choices!

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28 Qualities of Mindfulness Presence

29 ! Mindfulness is direct experience of events in and of one s body/mind! It is not getting caught up in thoughts about one s experience.

30 Qualities of Mindfulness Here and Now

31 Qualities of Mindfulness Acceptance

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33 Qualities of Mindfulness Beginner s Mind

34 The greatest impediment to discovery is not ignorance but what we already know.» Sylvia Boorstein, American Buddhist teacher

35 Qualities of Mindfulness Non-Judging

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37 Qualities of Mindfulness Letting Go

38 Your awareness is like a gracious host in the midst of unruly guests!» Soygal Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist teacher

39 Qualities of Mindfulness Appreciation

40 Qualities of Mindfulness Gentleness

41 Qualities of Mindfulness Loving-kindness & Compassion = open heart Mindfulness = open mind

42 Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom. - Victor Frankl, M.D., Ph.D. ( )

43 Mindfulness! Requires willingness! Do it over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

44 Music communicates with the body by speaking the language of physiology. Music is a process that happens within us, not to us. -- Schneck & Berger The Music Effect (2006)

45 ! The unique structure of music - it exists only through time requires the individual to commit to the experience moment by moment! The necessity for moment-to-moment commitment by the individual rests in the music itself.! William Sears, Processes in Music Therapy (1968)

46 ! Once committed to the music, the individual s behavior requires attention to the music through the duration of the musical experience, even if attention fluctuates.! Because the time order of music is continuous, the individual s responses must be continuous immediately observable, moment by moment.! William Sears, Processes in Music Therapy (1968)

47 MUSIC THERAPY! Phenomenological! Embodied & Relational! Requires presentness! Temporal - in the flowing now! Process oriented! Non-judgmental! Kindness & Compassion

48 MUSIC THERAPY Engages multiple avenues of sensory perception! Physical! auditory! kinesthetic! tactile! visual! Emotional! Cognitive! Intuitive! Relational! Spiritual

49 ! Music-making is a natural experience of mindfulness.! Engaging in music is a natural way to be in intentional, moment-to-moment, multi-sensory experience that is both embodied and relational without judgment and with appreciation.

50 RESOURCES There are many resources on mindfulness. To get started with the basics, I recommend the following by Jon Kabat-Zinn:! Full Catastrophe Living! Wherever You Go, There You Are! Mindfulness for Beginners

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